Diode-pumped environmentally stable stretched-pulse fiber laser

被引:20
作者
Jones, DJ
Nelson, LE
Haus, HA
Ippen, EP
机构
[1] MIT, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Elect Res Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technol, Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
fiber laser; optical pulse compression; short pulse generation; stretched-pulse fiber laser; ultrafast optics;
D O I
10.1109/2944.649543
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We present results obtained with a stretched-pulse polarization additive pulse mode locked (P-APM) fiber laser using an environmentally stable cavity design, With BSO-nm diode-pumping levels of 200-mW 1.2-nJ pulses with 50 nm of spectrum are obtained, These pulses can be externally compressed to sub-100 fs, The effects of high output coupling (>80%) and pumping configuration oh output performance and intracavity pulse dynamics are studied.
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页码:1076 / 1079
页数:4
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